"The Devil Wears Prada 2" star Pauline Chalamet | The Latest With Maya

A conversation with Pauline Chalamet.❤️ "The Devil Wears Prada 2" is out in theaters TODAY!


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SPEAKER_02 0:11

Hi Pauline, welcome to The Latest with Maya. Pauline Chalamet has been in, among other things, The King of Staten Island, What Doesn't Float, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. Most recently you can see Pauline in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which is out in theaters today. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm so excited to be talking with you.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Oh Maya, it's such a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Um, so who has had the biggest impact on the person you have become?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Oh, um, that answer varies uh so, you know, it it depends on where I'm at in life and what's going on. But I'd say um in terms of inspiration for my career and uh uh and and and two women who've really just like who when I was I was very young when they opened my mind, I would say Bernadette Peters and Liza Minelli. Um I got to see them each perform when I was very young, and they before even knowing I necessarily wanted this to be my career, they elicited something in me uh that I will forever be very grateful for.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um, so what is uh the greatest lesson you've learned from a character you've played?

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Well, I guess it would have to be from Kimberly, because she's who I got to spend the most time with. And I think a good lesson that Kimberly taught me is that sometimes in wanting to do the right thing, if you're too focused on how you view the right thing to be, um, you can actually get in your own way of having that thing happen. If you're not open to other people's opinions or the way that it could affect other people.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

Yeah. Um, yeah, so I am uh pop culture obsessed and I go in stages of shows that I cannot stop watching. Uh what show are you currently obsessed with?

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Oh god. Um there's so many shows that I'm obsessed with. Well, I don't know. Are we talking like like modern shows that just came out or you know, old shows that I'm just discovering?

SPEAKER_02 3:15

Like what what what I mean it can be either.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

Okay, so let's do one of each. How's that? Okay, yeah, that works. Um in terms of old shows that I had never watched and just sorry, discovered uh and got deeply addicted to. Um it's Nashville with Connie Britton and Hayden Penetier. Uh, that got me good. Um, that is some good, you know, old classic. Uh it's not that old, but it's like, you know, we're not making TV shows like that anymore. So that would be for the old. For the new, um, oh god, what shows? What is I I uh, you know, I'm I love obviously love all of Mindy's shows, so I binged Running Point season two in one day, and I loved that. Um I saw, I'm really excited for Margot's Got Money Troubles. Um I really like um I love LA. I really like um, oh, what's the one with um oh oh oh is it uh uh what is it called? I have to look it up. Dead to me.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Oh yeah. Uh is that what it's called? Yeah, with uh Christina Applegate. Yeah, I I loved that show.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, I've actually been watching so many shows recently, like even shows I'd never seen, like classics. Like I never saw Fraser. Frasier is amazing. Yeah. Like um, and uh, you know, just Parks and Recs are just constantly Parks and Rec, The Office and Friends in Seinfeld are just like always on. Um but yeah, I'm blanking right now because the question's been asked, but you know, there's always a show on.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Yeah. I mean I love so many of the shows that you just mentioned, and I yeah, I watched season two of Running Point in um yeah, in a day as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love that show, and I just watched um there's a new limited series on Netflix called Unchosen that I just finished, and it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

Oh, should I write it down?

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Yeah, I think so. Okay, yeah, it's a psychological thriller. Oh, and yeah, it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Oh yes, I heard about this. Okay. Should I watch this tonight instead of working? Probably yes.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Yeah, I was gonna say, I think that sounds like a good plan. Yeah, yeah. I do that um a lot. There if there's a show I get obsessed with, I'm like, there should be stuff I there's stuff I should be doing, but I just want to keep watching. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

It's how I felt about Lena Dunham's new book. Whenever I get a good book, I feel the same way. I'm like, can't stop, can't stop.

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Yeah. Um, so if you had a warning label, what would yours say?

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Um my warning label would say attention can snap. I can snap.

SPEAKER_02 7:13

I can snap. I like that one.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Yeah, I can snap. So I I think that's what my warning label would be.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Oh yeah. Yeah, I I can relate to that. I um that sometimes I try not to, but sometimes yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Sometimes it just like has to happen.

SPEAKER_02 7:32

Yeah, definitely. Um, so what genre of movie would your life story be told as?

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Uh, I think a dramedy. I think a dramedy. I think um there are I think that comedy, though there are like a lot of comedic elements in my life. Like this, I I I just know. Um, but there are also very like serious things that have happened in my life. Um, they sometimes feel like two separate lives. So it's like if I were to make a movie of them, then I think you know, you it would be the dramedy, which is like the boring answer. I wonder if there's like, I mean, I'm sure for some people it's like the genre would be horror. Um, it's like, oh, that's scary. Um, but but true. But like it's hard to imagine, like, you know, when you imagine like a typical horror movie, like, or you know, just like being dragged out of the bed, like, but um, but uh or thriller um documentary. Documentary. No, but I I think uh I think uh I think a dramedy.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Oh, I love that. Yeah, I've always wanted my life story to be both a musical and a rom-com.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

Um oh my god, the musical, the musical. That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Thank you. Yeah, yeah, that that's my dream to I I I think that's a great goal. Thank you. Um, so what is the um biggest obstacle either personally or professionally, uh, that you've overcome?

SPEAKER_01 10:20

That's a good question. Um That's a good I mean, I guess there are a few, and then there's a few that I'm like I haven't over mostly I'm like, I haven't overcome those obstacles. Um you know, I think I think a really hard obstacle in this career is like getting a job that will allow you to get in the room to audition for like a certain caliber of work. So I think that's like inherently an obstacle for every actor, where it's like, what is gonna be the job that's gonna help you get up a level on the ladder? And I think that um, like I think for instance, Judd Apatow casting me in King of Staten Island is what allowed me to like be to audition for um Sex Lives of College Girls. So I think like that, it's like it's like but those every audition's like an obstacle because there's more against you than for you every single time, obviously. So I'd say like that, you know, like being able to have to have worked uh in a movie on a set with with a very, very uh talented pioneer, comedy pioneer, um, was like a I was an obstacle, you know, it was an obstacle to to to get the job, and then I I overcame it because I did.

SPEAKER_02 12:12

Oh wow. Yeah, I um I loved uh the sex lives of college girls and The King of Staten Island is one of my favorite movies. Um yeah, I'm just I love that movie so much.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:33

Yeah, yeah, it's really good. Yeah. Um, so what small things bring you joy on a daily basis?

SPEAKER_01 12:44

Breakfast. Uh breakfast brings me joy. Um you know what's really nice? It's really nice being woken up by a radio alarm clock. I okay, a radio alarm clock that's not turned up too high. Because it it's like you slowly wake up to the sound of like classical music or like people discussing something at lowered voices. Um I uh I really like that. Like the that those those are those are two things that just are small but really bring me joy. Also finding hair ties around the apartment. Like if you don't have a hair tie and you're like, oh my gosh, like I just need to put up my hair, and then like you know, you you you go and you buy like another hair tie, and it's always buying hair ties, but then like sometimes you are walking around, maybe you're doing your cleanup, and you find a hair tie, you just put it on your wrist. That's a small thing that makes me really happy. Yeah, oh, I love that. Yeah. What's a small thing that makes you happy?

SPEAKER_02 14:00

Oh, um, I mean, there's so many. There's um I don't know, there's like uh going for a walk when it's not hot out that joy. Um that's good. And like binge binge watching a show if I'm really obsessed with it, which I often find shows I get obsessed with. I yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

Do you ever get do you ever feel guilty like when watching it, or do you like lean into the pleasure?

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Yeah, I like I lean into it. I'm like, Oh, I need to I need to take a page from your book. Yeah, I'm like I should be doing things, but this is making me happy right now, so I'm going with it. I'm yeah, amazing. Yeah, and um, I mean it these aren't like small things, but like being with my family and my dog. Uh, what kind of doll do you have? She's a plot hound boxer mix. What's that? She has she has like a brindle coat and then like a white stripe down her um. Oh they are so cute. Yeah, she's the cutest, and she she's so funny. She constantly brings me so much joy. She just makes me laugh all the time. Yeah, and my family and I got her when I was going through radiation, so she like yeah, um, when I wasn't feeling well and spent a lot of time on the couch, she just sat with me and she laid on my lap, and it's just it's the best thing in the world when she just oh my god, oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Oh, there's really nothing like a dog, yeah. There's not.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Yeah, she's just yeah, she's the best. I wish she were here. Yeah, I know if she was if she was up here, she's downstairs right now. Um, but if she was up here, I'd introduce you. Next time. Yes, I'll have to send you a picture of her. Oh, please. Please, please, please. I have like literally hundreds of pictures of her on my phone, so yes, I I I understand.

SPEAKER_01 16:25

And then ever do you like look through the photos and you're like each time you take it, you're like, oh my gosh, I've never seen my dog do that before. Like, look that cute. And then like you scroll and you kind of have the same picture like 500 times.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. My mom always jokes that I'm like, I'm I'm stalking her because I have so many pictures of her on my phone.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Yeah, that's funny.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Yeah. Um, so what is your favorite movie soundtrack?

SPEAKER_01 17:06

Oh, well, I have to say that I go through phases because there, you know, like I I'd say right now my most listened to movie soundtrack is the one from Sentimental Value. Um, I really, really enjoyed that soundtrack. Um, you know, obviously Little with Sunshine has such a good soundtrack. Um what are some other like really anything that Han Zimmer does, like put in some headphones and get me on a bike, like a 25-minute bike ride, like especially to something that's like, you know, like a like a something that I'm excited about and like I am actually in my own movie. Um what else? I love Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Um I'd say those are the ones that come to head, my those are the ones that come to my head.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Yeah, there's so many that I'm obsessed with, too. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. They're so good.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

When they're good, they're good.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Um, so what movie, book, uh play or show has had the biggest impact on you?

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Hmm. Oh god, I don't know. I mean, you know, I saw uh a production of Talk Radio with Lieb Schreiber in like 2020 um seven, eight, somewhere around then, six, six, seven, eight. Um and I I mean that was life-changing for me. I loved the play. Um there was a part in it that I was like, I want to play that part. That to this day I'm still like, I want to play that part. Um and um so definitely that production of of talk radio. Um, you know, I already mentioned seeing Bernadette Peters. I saw her and Annie get your gun, and I saw Eliza Manelli do like a compilation of a bunch of her songs. Um oh, there's so many movies that that have changed my life. You know, I I really I mean all movies. I used to go to the movies every eight eight at least once a week on Saturdays. Um, so I I I love I love going to the movies. There's so many movies that that have just influenced me so hard. I I always credit the kind of like mumble core movies to have given me like I think I always was very afraid of um being an actor, like even when I went to college, because I felt like it was such an uphill battle to like be able to get to the place where you were able to do the kind of work that you wanted to do, um, like the kind of part that you wanted to do. And when I started seeing all these like Joe Swanberg movies and like even Greta Gerwig, like when I started seeing these movies, I realized like, oh, you can make it for yourself. And so those were really pivotal in like unlocking a door in my head that was like, if you want it, like you can do it. Um and then there are the movies that you see, like I right now, like a serious man comes to mind, um, Gubrick movies, the movie Wanda, the movie Girlfriends, just like these movies that I watched forever. I mean, and then these like French, early French movies I was watching with my dad, um uh this comedian Louis de Finesse, this French comedian. Um I just there's everything is coming rushing into my to my head, but all I I think it's like when I watch a movie and it doesn't really stick with me, then I forget it. But when I like a movie, it like touches me somewhere in me where it kind of like lives on in my imagination for for forever. Um so I think it's a whole bag of everything.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

Oh, I love that. Yeah. Um, so my final question for you is uh today what are you most grateful for um that's the best question I think I'm really grateful for good health and grateful for being um like having close ones close ones who um I'm a very close to I uh and people who I love very much be having a very close tight knit family um and friends chosen family and living yeah being able to like leave my house and not uh you know live under bombs I don't live in a war zone um and just be able to kind of look up at the sky and um know that I can just appreciate the beauty without having to um worry about uh you know there being man-made objects up in the sky so um I'd say those that that that's probably what I'm I'm grateful for most grateful for and and and uh and work I really love work so um I'm I'm grateful for it what what are you grateful for these days um I mean I'm grateful for my family and um yeah all like the my chosen family um too and um being able to do this and like have a conversation with you um yeah no I'm so happy we got to do this your channel is so great oh thank you so much I just I've been such a fan of yours for so long so thank you so much for joining me anytime at any time thank you and um yeah I hope you have a great rest of your day thank you thank you Maya same to you thank you and yeah thank you so much again for joining me of course anytime thank you um and that's a wrap on today's edition of the latest with Maya